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Job summary

Main area
Rheumatology
Grade
YM73
Contract
12 months (12 months fixed term contract)
Hours
Full time - 10 sessions per week
Job ref
220-EIM-MED-008
Employer
Whittington Health NHS Trust
Employer type
NHS
Site
Whittington Hospital
Town
London
Salary
£99,532 - £131,964 per annum
Salary period
Yearly
Closing
23/07/2024 23:59

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Locum Consultant in Rheumatology

YM73

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Job overview

12 month Fixed Term Consultant in Rheumatology

“Best of both” at the Whittington – The Whittington Hospital is a unique place. It combines the academic ethos of a University Hospital with the friendliness of a Rural DGH. The number of students and junior doctors who return as registrars and consultants is testament to the positive working environment and the collegiate atmosphere that has been created. Add in the lowest Standardised Mortality Ratio in the country and you have a hospital that is a great place to work.

Our Rheumatology service cares for people with: Inflammatory and degenerative joint disease, auto-inflammatory connective tissue problems and metabolic bone disorders. The team of consultants, registrars and specialist nurses care for adults in outpatient clinics at Whittington Health and covers hospital inpatients and urgent referrals from GPs and the emergency department. We are working closely with our colleagues in the musculoskeletal physiotherapy service, pain management, imaging, trauma and orthopaedics, paediatrics and podiatry.

Main duties of the job

Please see the full Job Description and the Person Specification for further details about the job role.

Working for our organisation

Whittington Health serves a richly diverse population and works hard to ensure that all our services are fair and equally accessible to everyone. Nowhere is this more obvious than in the way we look after our staff.  We aim to employ a workforce which is as representative as possible of this population, so we are open to the value of differences in age, disability, gender, marital status, pregnancy and maternity, race, sexual orientation, and religion or belief.  The Trust believes that as a public sector organisation we have an obligation to have recruitment, training, promotion and other formal employment policies and procedures that are sensitive to these differences. We think that by doing so, we are better able to treat our patients as well as being a better place to work.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Duties and responsibilities of the Post:

The post holder will join our current team in caring for patients in the outpatient clinic. The postholder will support the team with inpatient, ambulatory care and urgent referrals. Inpatients are admitted under general medical teams. The post holder will support the SpR and the nurses with patient queries and liaise with hospital colleagues and GPs via the advice and guidance portal.

Proposed  Rheumatology timetable:

The new post holder will have a shared office in Jenner Building with access to a Desktop PC and a dedicated phone line, which is away from the clinical space to allow for better working efficiency. There are highly experienced Rheumatology Administrative Assistants, DICTATE IT3 is used for clinic letters.

The post holder should be prepared to perform duties in occasional emergencies and unforeseen circumstances.  Commitments arising in such circumstances are, however, exceptional and the post holder will not be required to undertake work of this kind for prolonged periods or on a regular basis. 

There remains some flexibility around how the job plan is delivered, and the successful candidate will have the chance of discussing this further on appointment.

Job Plan:

This is a full-time appointment with 10 programmed activities to include 7.5 programmed activities for patient care (DCC) and 2.5 for supporting programmed activities and other work for the NHS.  Supporting programmed activities are activities that underpin direct clinical care and include participating in training, undergraduate medical education, CPD (including time to read appropriate journals), audit, appraisal, research, clinical governance and clinical management.

See the attached job description and person specification for further information and a detailed timetable.

Person specification

Qualifications

Essential criteria
  • Full GMC Registration
  • Membership of the Royal College of Physicians, or equivalent.
  • Certificate of Completion of Training (CCT) in Rheumatology
Desirable criteria
  • An additional higher degree (MD, PhD, MA)

Teaching

Essential criteria
  • Experience of and commitment to undergraduate and graduate teaching.
  • Skills to support Trainee Doctors and Specialist Nurses.
Desirable criteria
  • Formal training in educational and clinical supervision of junior Drs

Flexible thinking

Essential criteria
  • Able to work in a multi-disciplinary team with consultants, trainees, nursing staff and allied health professionals.
  • Ability to establish and maintain excellent collaborative relationships with staff of all grades
  • Ability to motivate and develop the multi-disciplinary team, balancing departmental and personal objectives.

Quality improvement and Clinical Audit

Essential criteria
  • Experience of quality improvement and clinical audit.
Desirable criteria
  • Experience in transformation projects and department changes.

Communication skills

Essential criteria
  • Excellent communication skills

Employer certification / accreditation badges

No smoking policyPositive about disabled peopleDisability confident leaderInvestors in PeopleImproving working livesCare quality commission - GoodDisability confident committed

Applicant requirements

You must have appropriate UK professional registration.

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.

Documents to download

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Further details / informal visits contact

Name
Dr Anna Nuttall
Job title
Rheumatology Clinical Lead
Email address
[email protected]

If you have problems applying, contact

Address
Whittington Health NHS Trust
Magdala Avenue
London
N19 5NF
Telephone
020 7288 3254
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